‘Kin’: AMC+ Crime Series Tells A Familiar Tale But Is Elevated By A Superb Cast [Review]
Is there room in the TV world for another violent family drama? AMC+ sure hopes so, as the streaming service premieres the intense crime saga “Kin,” a sort of Irish brother to their critically acclaimed “Gangs of London,” which debuted to largely rapturous reviews. With its thick accents, violent betrayals, and setting in the criminal underworld, “Kin” can’t really avoid the comparisons to Gareth Evans’s superior program, but it’s really a much more confined tale, less sprawling and more focused on one family as it makes decisions that lead to tragedies, and it begins to appear that they may get wiped off the face of the entire island by a much stronger force.